Nov 8 -Bernie James, who was the
"interim" head coach for the 2001 campaign, was let go. General manager Brad Kimura has resigned. Managing
partner Adrian Hanauer will take over as GM for 2002, his first task to find a
new head coach. More in the Seattle Times.

Sep 8 - The Sounders finished their season with a
5-1 rout of the Vancouver Whitecaps. The Sounders finished with a season record of
13-1-12 (W-D-L), just barely a winning season. For the first time in the APSL and
A-League era, the Sounders failed to qualify for the playoffs.

Aug 31 - Jason Farrell was called up by the Los
Angeles Galaxy for this weekend. This was due to an unfortunate injury to the Galaxy's Brian
Ching, who has been loaned to the Sounders for several matches this season. Ching
suffered a facial fracture around his right eye in an exhibition match between the MLS
Galaxy and the A-League San Diego Flash FC.

Aug 23 - The Sounders today waived brothers Ali
John Utush and Rashid Utush, who had played in 8 and 1 matches respectively.

Aug 7 - The Sounders announced the re-signing
of forwards Erik Storkson and Rashid Utush, and called up goalkeeper Carlos
Castellanos from Seattle Sounders Select.

Aug 6 - The Sounders called up defender Casey
Barber from Seattle Sounders Select. The Sounders also completed the paperwork to make
three Los Angeles Galaxy players available on loan: forwards Brian Ching, Isaias
Bardales Jr., and defender Craig Waibel.

Jul 31 - The Sounders have signed 21-year-old
South African Dylin Pillay, a former member of the South Africa U-20 national team
and a three-time Junior Player of the Year in his homeland.

Jul 1 - Forward Scott Bower from the San
Jose Earthquake joined the Sounders on loan for a match in Minnesota. 23-year-old Bower
was born in Port Angeles, WA.

Jun 29 - Sounders Select midfielder Ben
Somoza and defender Bryn Ritchie left to train with the Los Angeles Galaxy. The
pair can be expected to rejoin the Sounders Select for their US Open Cup match against the
Galaxy on Jul 11.

Defender Ali John "AJ" Utush has rejoined the Sounders.

Jun 27 - The Seattle Sounders were knocked out
of the US Open Cup in the second round by the Kansas City Wizards 4-0, but the Seattle
Sounders Select advanced with a 3-2 win, after extra time, at the Dallas Burn. The
Sounders Select earned a 3rd round match with the Los Angeles Galaxy.

Jun 20 - The Sounders announced that 1994
A-League Rookie of the Year Jason Dunn has agreed to terms. Dunn played for the
Sounders from 1994-96, notching 18 goals in 69 regular season appearances.

Jun 9 - The Seattle Sounders Select advanced to
the second round of the US Open Cup with a 4-1 home win over Olympia-Stamford, a
Polish-American amateur team that traveled almost 3000 miles from Connecticut for the
match!

Jun 8 - With a 3-0 win over the Utah Blitzz,
the Sounders clinched first place in Group 9 and qualified for the second round of the US
Open Cup. The 2nd round will include all 12 MLS teams, up to 11 A-League teams, at least 5
D3 teams, and 4 amateur teams (PDL or USASA). The Utah Blitzz have qualified via a wild
card as one of the top 5 D3 teams in points.

May 25 - The Seattle Sounders Select qualified
for the first round of the US Open Cup with a 2-1 win over the Okanagan Predators. Even
though the match was played in Canada, it counted as both a US Open Cup qualifier and a
league match. The Sounders Select finished their four qualifiers with a 4-0-0 record and
have qualified for the next round of the Open Cup. Only four out of 42 PDL teams earn
spots in the first round. The PDL was split into three groups of 14 teams each for
qualification, and the Sounders Select finished second in their group, tied in points with
the Central Coast Roadrunners (San Luis Obispo, CA), who had better goal differential. The
Sounders Select qualified as the second place team with the most points.

May 20 - Roster changes: Draft pick Mark
Hogenhout has been released. Todd Stauber has been moved from the Sounders
roster to the Sounders Select.

May 17 - 23-year-old defender Charles Gbeke has
been signed by the Vancouver Whitecaps. The Canadian resident, born in the Ivory Coast,
was with the Whitecaps in the preseason, signed with Seattle, played for Seattle in the
opening match, and had to head back north of the border when he couldn't get a US work
permit.

May 4 - The Los Angeles Galaxy signed Sounders
defender Craig Waibel as a "discovery player".

The Sounders are promising to webcast home matches (starting with tomorrow's match) at
www.seattlesounders.tv, audio
and video.

May 1 - The Sounders announced the signing of
newcomers F Christer Forsberg and D Charles Gbeke.

Sounders General Manager Brad Kimura is featured in a soccer365.com interview, part I. Discussed are team ownership, finances, venue, web
broadcasts, and prospects for a Seattle MLS franchise.
In part II, Kimura discusses the various components of the Sounders club.
The "Tim Spry" mentioned as youth and women's coach should be Chance Fry.
Web broadcast of home matches is mentioned at the end of the article -- it will apparently
be pay per view ($5 per match was mentioned as a hypothetical price)!

Apr 29 - Peter Hattrup will be Assistant Coach
for the Sounders and David Hoggan will be Technical Director. Both were standout
midfielders during their playing days with the Sounders.

Apr 20 - Defender Craig Waibel has been
re-signed by the Sounders after being drafted by the San Jose Earthquakes and then waived
just before the start of the MLS season.

Apr 19 - Sounders head coach Neil Megson has
"resigned based on a disagreement
in principle with management concerning direction and the development of the club."
This is reminiscent of January 1996 when then head coach Alan Hintonresigned
after "months of budget disagreements".
Megson was named A-League coach of the Year after last season and Hinton had been named
APSL Coach of the Year in 1994. Thanks, Neil, for becoming a great coach for the
Sounders, for treating us fans to many wonderful matches the past five seasons, and for
your great play as a defender in the mid-90s!

Assistant coach and retired Sounders defender Bernie James has been named as head coach of the Sounders for
the 2001 season.

Apr 12 - Teddy Mitalas has been announced as
the head coach of the Seattle Sounders Select, who compete in the Northwest Division of
the Premier Development League. Mitalas served as an assistant coach for the team the past
two seasons.

Apr 11 - In a whirlwind of news, the San Diego
Flash were reported in serious danger of folding just 3 days before their first match of
the season, then the team announced that they will not compete in the 2001 season, then
the USL announced that they would run a new San Diego franchise until a buyer can be
found. A tip of the hat to USL Associate Commissioner Dave Askinas for responding to the
above bad news with some positive news same day! The next day saw a recap in the local
paper, and another day later the league announced that they expected to soon have a buyer
for the franchise.

Mountlake Terrace native and ex-SPU forward Dana Garner on the Sounders: "I
let the Sounders know that I wouldn't be interested in signing with them, so that's
probably why they didn't draft me. To be honest, I'm not a big fan of the Sounders. It's
not the best-organized club and I wouldn't have been keen on playing all of the home games
on their artificial turf." From an article in the Vancouver Sun.

Apr 6 - The San Jose Earthquakes have waived D Craig
Waibel just before this weekend's season kickoff.

The Sounders announced the signing of draft choices D/M Mike Casale and M Mark
Hogenhout, both of whom played for the Sounders Select last season.

Apr 5 - The Sounders announced the return of F Craig
Tomlinson, who is recovering from arthroscopic knee surgery performed mid-March, and
the signing of rookies M Chad Brown and F/M Chris Farnsworth, who were both
called up from the Sounders Select for a few late-season matches last year.

Mar 26 - The Sounders held their open tryouts
over the past two days. We dropped by at the start and saw about 35 trialists. Forward Craig
Tomlinson was there in street clothes. He said that he underwent another arthroscopic
knee surgery (second in a year) in mid-March. He would like to play later this year, but
it depends on how his recovery goes.

Mar 22 - The Sounders have posted some sketches
of their planned soccer complex. Three thumbnail pics give a bird's-eye and a fan's-eye
view of the pitch, plus a layout drawing that shows:

5000-seat stadium, expandable to 15,000

6 practice pitches -- 4 grass and 2 artificial

Indoor soccer building

Administration offices

Future dormitory

We sure hope this plans comes to fruition. We've seen some other teams float out plans
that never materialized.

We understand that a Seattle MLS team would play in the new stadium that is now rising
from the ashes of the Kingdome. An MLS team would use the above Sounders facility for
training, though.

On the player front, ex-Sounder goalscorer Mark Baena has signed with Portland.

We heard a rumor that Leighton O'Brien will join the Sounders. O'Brien is a
25-year-old midfielder from Federal Way. He played for MLS' US Pro-40 in 1999 and saw
action in 4 matches for the San Jose Clash. Last season, he played for the San Diego
Flash.

Brian Haynes has been named an assistant coach for the Dallas Burn, whom he
played for from 1996-2000 following his 1995 season with the Sounders.

Mar 6 - A check of the MLS preseason rosters at
mlsnet.com found these players who
have local ties:

Feb 26 - Goalkeeper Bill May has
announced his retirement and plans to concentrate on a nonsoccer career.

Feb 15 - An interesting article on the Sounders' vision for developing young players.

Feb 8 - Sounders draft picks:

Round 1 (territorial), pick 17: Brian Ching, who was also drafted in Monday's MLS
draft by the Los Angeles Galaxy. 6'0" forward from Haleiwa, HI. Scored 6 goals and 3
assists last season for Gonzaga. Named to the All-Far West 1st Team and the All-Conference
1st Team.

Round 2, pick 22 (from Portland by trade): Mike Casale. 6'0", 150 lb
defender/midfielder from Redmond. Played for UW last fall. Named to the Pac-10 2nd Team.
Played for the Sounders Select.

Round 2, pick 39: Mark Hogenhout. 5'7", 155# midfielder from Olympia. Scored
3 goals and 2 assists for UW last fall. Named to the Pac-10 2nd Team. Played for the
Sounders Select.

D/M Nick Downing goes in the 2nd round, 21st overall, to the New England
Revolution.

Sounders M Andrew Gregor goes in the 2nd round, 24th overall, to the Kansas City
Wizards.

Sounders D Craig Waibel goes in the 3rd round, 31st overall, to the San Jose
Earthquake.

In the MLS draft pool but not taken were UW seniors Mike Casale (D) and Mark
Hogenhout (M).

USA Today reports that SPU's 1999 goalkeeper Johann Noetzel has been waived by
the Dallas Burn and M Chris Henderson was traded by the Kansas City Wizards to the
Miami Fusion for Roy Lassiter.

Jan 30 - The first announced signing of 2001 is
major news: midfielder Jason Farrell.

Jan 24 - An alert reader noticed a recent Puget
Sound Business Journal article
on the Sounders CEO Neil Farnsworth's plans to build a soccer complex for the club.
The Fife option has apparently evaporated, but several other communities have expressed
interest in cooperating with the Sounders to make the complex a reality.

Jan 23 - This year's affiliations between MLS
and USL clubs have been announced. The Sounders are affiliated with the Colorado Rapids,
the San Jose Earthquakes and the Los Angeles Galaxy.

Jan 22 - Redmond defender/midfielder Nick
Downing has signed with MLS' Pro-40 squad. The past three years Downing has been
playing for the University of Maryland, returning home part of the past two summers to
play for the PDL Seattle Sounders Select. Downing has played a lot of matches with the US
national youth teams, including 22 caps with the U-20 side.

Jan 11 - Defender Craig Waibel has been
called up by MLS LA Galaxy for the upcoming 2000 The Football Confederation (a.k.a.
CONCACAF) Champions Cup, Jan 16-21 in California.

Jan 3 - University of Washington goalkeeper Hope
Solo has replaced national team regular Siri Mullinix on the US Women's Team for their
Jan 7-15 trip to China. Defender Michelle French from Kent is also on the roster.